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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Beat Generation"”.
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My witness is the empty sky : journeys of the beat generation
My Witness Is the Empty Sky: Journeys of the Beat Generation is a piece of travel writing and ficto-critical writing, aiming to combine historical information with creative work. In this way it tells the story of the Beat Generation in various world-wide locations, concentrating on the life of the …
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Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation
… Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation" explores female members of a subculture that mythologized the road as a space for escaping Cold War containment. This project begins by redefining Cold War "containment," typically identified as the strategy for controlling …
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Soul, Ego, and the Problem of Self-Location in American Poetry: From Emerson to the Beat Generation
… have occurred between Emerson's era and the Beat Generation that alter the conditions of self-location, such changes nevertheless do not fundamentally alter the process by which that self-location is achieved. By becoming conscious of the surrounding landscape (however that term is defined) …
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The twilight of romanticism: a thematic content analysis of the French romantic movement and the beat generation
… periods: The French Romantic Movement and the Beat Generation in America during the 1950's. The study defined the fundamental literary themes of the French Romantic Movement and examined the sociological factors which led to the development of this system of ideas. In turn, the French themes …
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Bohemian resonance: the beat generation and urban countercultures in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s
… precipitated a mass-media sensation over the beat generation and its subculture of idiosyncratic writers and artists. As a result, urban districts in which avant-garde intellectuals congregated experienced a rapid influx of new residents and frequent visitors, many of whom did not identify as …
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I ain't gonna sell my soul: Beat Generation men and women caught between traditional and bohemian notions of intimacy
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction
Jack Kerouac, accepted speaker for the Beat Generation in American literature, used women as vehicles in his attempt to define himself in both his life and his fiction. His three female-centered novels, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa show the male protagonists following a pattern …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went against Kerouac's own beliefs. Rather than rebellion, Kerouac wanted to write in …
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"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs"
… aware of a problem when I was introduced to the Beats. I thought, ‘Where are the women? There must be some.’ There were, of course, but that notion required some digging, for these women are often only mentioned briefly when reading of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William …
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Deat poets society : um microcosmo da sociedade americana na década de 1950
… e retomar “The Song of Myself"1 à semelhança da Beat Generation que recriou e inovou a literatura e as artes plásticas através da introspecção, dos inner eyes of man, na década de 1950, nos Estados Unidos da América. No início deste milénio, apelar a Emerson, Whitman ou Thoreau2 e valorizar o …
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Rock & Roll: a novel
… black rhythm and blues and the writings of the Beat generation, that somehow merged in the mid-1960s to produce rock music. They play with the self-imposed otherness of the self-defined rebel, and how this normalises behaviour that would be unacceptable outside the bubble of exemption. They …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… influencing poets, musicians, and artists for generations to come.